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Grammys 2022 sees Ukrainian President Zelenskyy make a virtual appearance: 'Fill the silence with your music’
04.04.2022 - 06:05 / foxnews.com
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a virtual appearance during the 2022 Grammy Awards. During a pre-taped appearance that aired on Sunday, Zelenskyy addressed the ongoing war with Russia, asking viewers for support in telling the story of Ukraine’s invasion by Russia. Zelenskyy likened the invasion to a deadly silence threatening to extinguish the dreams and lives of the Ukrainian people, including children.
"The war doesn't let us choose who survives and who stays in eternal silence," the Ukrainian president began. "Our musicians wear body armor instead of tuxedos.They sing to the wounded in hospitals. They sing to the wounded in hospitals, even to those who can’t hear them.
But the music will break through anyway." He noted, "We defend our freedom to live.To sound." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a virtual appearance during the 2022 Grammy Awards. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Zelenskyy went on to add, "On our land, we are fighting Russia which brings horrible silence with its bombs.The dead silence. Fill the silence with your music.
Fill it today.Tell our story." Zelenskyy also added, "Support us in any way you can. Any but not silence." According to Variety, Zelenskyy filmed the pre-taped segment within the last 48 hours from a bunker in Kyiv. "On our land, we are fighting Russia which brings horrible silence with its bombs.The dead silence.
Fill the silence with your music. Fill it today.Tell our story." — President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy Zelenskyy's appearance was followed by a performance led by John Legend and Ukrainian musicians, Siuzanna Iglidan and Mika Newton, as well as poet Lyuba Yakimchuk. Images from the war were shown on screens behind
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